#desires

...I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.... ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#rules #slow-thinking #acting

Always having what we want may not be the best good fortune Health seems sweetest after sickness, food in hunger, goodness in the wake of evil, and at the end of daylong labor sleep. ↗

— Heraclitus

#dreams #fulfillment #goals #unfulfillment #dreams

We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires to throttle our children, poison our spouse, or end our marriage over a dispute about changing a lightbulb. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#chaos #civilization #desires #necessity #order

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#culture #dead #desires #dying #endlessly

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order? ↗

— Xun Zi

#conforms #desires #even #good #harm

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books. ↗

— Peter Abrahams

#born #consciousness #desired #desires #dreams

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible. ↗

— Norman Angell

#courses #desires #every #every nation #impossible

Relinquishing selfish wants, one is free to allow others to travel their own paths under the will of God. (18) ↗

— Prem Prakash

#freedom #god #god-s-will #selfishness #spiritual-paths

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever. ↗

— Tokugawa Ieyasu

#arise #assurance #days #desires #extremity

Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#feel #feelings #fellow #his #how